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Charles Hodge
[People]Charles Hodge (1797–1878) was an American Presbyterian theologian. He taught at Princeton Theological Seminary for more than half a century and wrote a three-volume Systematic Theology, becoming the leading representative of "Princeton Theology."
Dwight L. Moody
[People]Dwight Lyman Moody (1837–1899) was an American lay revival preacher. He led mass evangelistic campaigns in major cities, founded educational institutions including the Moody Bible Institute, and presided over the conference that gave rise to the Student Volunteer Movement.
George Whitefield
[People]George Whitefield (1714–1770) was a priest of the Church of England and an itinerant preacher. He is regarded as one of the figures who sparked the eighteenth-century Great Awakening through his open-air preaching in Britain and the North American colonies, and he was a leader of Calvinistic Methodism.
Lesslie Newbigin
[People]Lesslie Newbigin (1909–1998) was a British missionary, theologian, and leader in the ecumenical movement. He served as a missionary in India and as a bishop of the Church of South India. By regarding Western society as a mission field in need of re-evangelization, he laid the foundation for missional ecclesiology.
Lillias Horton Underwood
[People]Lillias Horton Underwood (1851–1921) was an American medical missionary sent by the Presbyterian Church in the U.S.A. (the Northern Presbyterian Church). Arriving in Korea in 1888, she headed the women's department of Jejungwon and served as physician to Empress Myeongseong. The wife of Horace Underwood, she was also active in women's ministry and writing.
William Lane Craig
[People]William Lane Craig (born 1949) is an American analytic philosopher, theologian, and Christian apologist. He is widely known for reviving the kalam cosmological argument for the existence of God and for his public debates with atheists.
Jun Taek-bu
[People]Jun Taek-bu (1915–2008) was a Korean YMCA leader and a writer on Christian history. He served as general secretary and later as honorary general secretary of the Seoul YMCA. His works include *A History of the Korean YMCA Movement* and *A History of the Development of the Korean Church*, and he was also active in the movement to promote Hangul, the Korean alphabet.
Robert Hardie
[People]Robert Alexander Hardie (1865–1949) was a Canadian medical missionary and Methodist minister. Known in Korea as Ha Ri-yeong (河鯉泳), he is remembered for leading the 1903 Wonsan Revival.
Lyman Beecher
[People]Lyman Beecher (1775–1863) was a nineteenth-century American Presbyterian and Congregationalist minister and revivalist. He was a leader of the temperance movement and served as president of Lane Theological Seminary.
Korea Inter-Varsity Christian Fellowship
[Institutions]Korea Inter-Varsity Christian Fellowship (IVF) is an interdenominational university student mission organization in South Korea that became a full member of the International Fellowship of Evangelical Students (IFES) in 1956. It is known for small-group Bible study on university campuses and for the books published by its publishing arm, IVP.
Christian Gospel Mission
[Heresies & Cults]The Christian Gospel Mission is a religious organization founded by Jung Myung-seok and widely known as JMS. Several Protestant denominations in South Korea have declared it heretical, and its founder has twice received final prison sentences for sex crimes against female members.
Suneung Prayer Meeting
[Christian Life]A Suneung prayer meeting is a prayer gathering held by churches in South Korea for students preparing to take the College Scholastic Ability Test (Suneung) and for their families. It is also called a senior-year prayer meeting.
Young Adult Ministry
[Christian Life]A young adult ministry is an age-based church department that follows the church school years and gathers mainly college students and unmarried young adults in their twenties and thirties. Depending on the church, it may also be called a young adults' association or a college ministry.
School Chaplain
[Church Offices]A school chaplain is a pastor attached to a school founded on Christian principles who is responsible for worship, religious education, and counseling for students, faculty, and staff.
JOY Mission
[Institutions]JOY Mission is an interdenominational university student mission organization in South Korea, begun in 1958 by Korean university students who gathered on their own initiative. It carries out evangelism and discipleship on university campuses.
Christian Education Sunday
[Christian Life]Christian Education Sunday is a Sunday on which a church reflects on its ministries of faith education, including the church school, prays for teachers and students, and renews its commitment to this work.
Evangelist (Jeondosa)
[Church Offices]In Korean Protestant churches, an evangelist (jeondosa) is a minister who serves in a congregation before ordination as a pastor and is responsible for duties such as education, pastoral visitation, and preaching. The position is usually held by theological students or seminary graduates.
Korea Campus Crusade for Christ
[Institutions]Korea Campus Crusade for Christ (KCCC) is an interdenominational campus mission organization founded in 1958 by the Rev. Kim Joon-gon. It is known as the first overseas branch of Campus Crusade for Christ, which began in the United States.
University Bible Fellowship
[Institutions]University Bible Fellowship (UBF) is an interdenominational campus mission organization founded in Gwangju, South Korea, in 1961 by Lee Chang-woo and Sarah Barry, a missionary of the Presbyterian Church in the United States (the Southern Presbyterian Church). It is known for one-to-one Bible study and overseas university missions.
Theological Seminary
[Organization & Polity]A theological seminary, or graduate school of theology, is a graduate-level program whose primary purpose is the training of pastors. Its core program is the Master of Divinity (M.Div.), and many Korean Protestant denominations treat completion of this program as a basic requirement for ordination.